USA Today - May 18 2006

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Clues Answers
''Don Giovanni'' highlight ARIA
''Shame on you!'' TSK
According to PER
Admittance ACCESS
Agcy. for homeowners FHA
Alternative to dial-up, briefly DSL
Arrogant one SNOB
Bar on the table OLEO
Barbershop sound SNIP
Before, in verse ERE
Bottomless pit ABYSM
Brat or bug, e.g. PEST
Brilliant success ECLAT
Certain pocket-watch retainer FOB
Chromosome part GENE
Clashes, as with the law RUNINS
Closer NEARER
Dead giveaways? ESTATES
Den fixtures TVS
Diamond number NINE
Eats to excess ENGORGES
Egypt's Mubarak HOSNI
Einstein's birthplace ULM
Erie Canal mule SAL
Eye-bending pictures OPART
Filming area, often SET
First comes love, then comes these three LORNAFFAIRSNEST
First comes love, then comes these two HANDLESTRIANGLE
First comes love, then these four SICKBEADSINSEAT
First comes love, then these three LIFESTRUCKBIRDS
Flies like an eagle SOARS
Giants Hall-of-Famer OTT
Give praise to LAUD
Greeting words HELLOS
Hospital area, briefly ICU
Idyllic locale EDEN
Jeanne d'___ ARC
Like the Sahara ARID
Clues Answers
Lunched, e.g. ATE
Manicurists' locales SPAS
Many an outdoor restaurant CAFE
Marble units SLABS
Mayflower passenger PILGRIM
Membrane of the eye CORNEA
Native of Novi Sad SERB
Nipple ring (Var.) AREOLE
Noble Italian name ESTE
Not pos. NEG
Not very challenging EASY
Oktoberfest vessel STEIN
One doing clerical work PRIEST
Part of a sonnet, perhaps SESTET
Part of China MAINLAND
Parting word in one of 50 ALOHA
Pet restraint LEASH
Philippine president Fidel RAMOS
Place for a spare tire? WAIST
Placekicker's prop TEE
Poodle name, sometimes FIFI
Prison, slangily STIR
Pro's opposite ANTI
Redheaded sitcom legend LUCY
Resided DWELT
Russian ruler of old TSAR
Sault ___ Marie STE
Ship petty officers, for short BOSNS
Soothsayer SEER
Stand for the arts? EASEL
Steel City pro PIRATE
Storm preceder CALM
Sundial's seven VII
Tense (with ''up'') KEYED
Transfer and messenger materials RNAS
Tuscan tenor Bocelli ANDREA
What means may justify ENDS
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